Reflecting Realities – call for action

Reflecting Realities – call for action

Reflecting Realities – call for action CLPE and BookTrust announce partnership to drive long-term and systemic change in representation in children’s literature and publishing Children’s reading charity BookTrust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education...
A Story about Afiya

A Story about Afiya

A Story about Afiya Book Details A Story about AfiyaJames Berry, illus. Anna Cunha. London: Lantana Publishing, hb 978 1 9113 7333 9, 2020, £11.99, 32pp.Picture book, fiction, 4-6 years BACK TO REVIEWS Afiya has just one dress to wear, a white frock that she washes...
Belonging Street

Belonging Street

Belonging Street Book Details Belonging StreetMandy Coe, illus. Mandy Coe, Burley Gate, Hereford: Otter-Barry Books, pb 978 1 9130 7480 7, 2020, £7.99, 96pp.Poetry, 7-11 years BACK TO REVIEWS This is another in the series of small stuff-in-your-schoolbag poetry books....
The 2020 Little Rebels Book Award Shortlist

The 2020 Little Rebels Book Award Shortlist

The 2020 Little Rebels Book Award Shortlist Boundless kindness, domestic violence, excess consumerism, sustainability, untold histories and a Brexit fable are all on the agenda for this year’s Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction. Gill Lewis is...